My Career

I commenced my professional career in Western Australia assisting injured employees return to work. This gave me the great privilege of experiencing the diversity of working life – from chicken processing factories to global mining companies. A promotion saw a relocation to the Northern Territory where I set up the first private industrial rehabilitation company.

 

My next move was to a Big 5 accounting firm where I learned enough about consulting to establish my own values-driven business. Since then, I have partnered with colleagues to establish a coaching consortium and worked in all aspects of organisational psychology consulting, from recruitment and selection to culture change. 

 

From 2010 to 2025 I focussed on establishing a global consortium, Working With Resilience, while continuing to work in general consultancy.  I also founded Perspective, a team app, and co-designed RREAL Supervision – an approach to professional supervision that meets the needs of today’s human services sector.

 

Along the way I joined the Army Reserve, undertook officer training and learned about leadership ‘on the job’ as a 21-year-old running a transport troop. Later I became a Captain in the Psychology Corps and was involved in military leadership programmes.

My Expertise

I am a registered organisational psychologist – a profession that has helped ground my work in science and allowed a deep understanding of organisational behaviours, systems and processes. I have maintained a strong association with the University of South Australia where I have lectured, provided student supervision and acted on advisory boards to the School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy and the Centre for Workplace Excellence. I also conduct research with academic colleagues. In 2014 I was elected a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society in recognition of my contribution to the profession and the year before became a member of the South Australian Health Practitioners Tribunal. My board membership also includes the People and Culture Governing Board at Central Adelaide Local Health Service.

 

When coaching was established as a profession in the 1990s, I became a founding member of the Australian Psychological Society’s Coaching Interest Group and established an executive coaching business with colleagues – CoachParters. I have wide coaching experience across industries and was granted fellowship of the Association of Coaching.  These days I mostly coach leaders and teams in managing specific challenges or complex work environments. I establish rapport and get to the heart of an issue quickly.

 

I also hold specialist skills in conflict resolution and mediation and achieved national accreditation as a mediator. This training and experience fine-tuned my capacity to deal with sensitive issues, hold and facilitate challenging conversations and manage the complexities of confidentiality in group work.